Type of Article: MacNews Web Site

The Alchemist Guild has released the latest version (1.3) of TaskCard (http://www.taskcardosx.com), a task management application for Mac OS X. There’s a new “TaskCardHelper” background application that notifies of overdue tasks even if TaskCard isn’t open (see the manual for more information).

Basilisk Games, developer of the Eschalon old school RPG series, has announced the end of support for PowerPC Macs., according to “Inside Mac Games” (http://www.insidemacgames.com).

Version 1.05 of Book I, and version 1.04 of Book II will be the last Universal Binary releases of the games. The change will mean that PPC users will not have access to the upcoming free Eschalon: Book II expansion.

In depth interviews with low-income first-time mobile phone owners in Manila show that basic no-frills phones will meet the needs of some emerging market consumers, but others want more features — and will pay for them, according to the Strategy Analytics (http://www.strategyanalytics.com) research firm

Dog Park Software (http://www.dogparksoftware.com/MacLoggerDX.html) has updated MacLogger DX, ham radio logging software, to version 5.29. It’s a maintenance update with some bug fixes.